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TMZ report: "No one from NFL asked for the elevator tape." UPDATE 11:10AM
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:07 am
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:07 am
NFL: "We were told the footage was not available"
TMZ
ESPN
NFL responds with another statement LINK
TMZ
quote:
The NFL NEVER contacted the casino to request video of Ray Rice brutalizing his fiancee ... TMZ Sports has learned. Commissioner Rodger Goodell made his disciplinary decision in the dark, which raises the question ... Is that the way he wanted it?
Sources connected with the Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City tell TMZ Sports ... NO ONE from the NFL ever asked for the video inside the elevator ... video that was compelling enough to get Rice instantly fired.
Sources who worked at the casino at the time of the incident tell us ... if the NFL had asked for the video, they would have gladly complied.
Without video ... Goodell blindly justified the initial 2-game suspension, based on the only evidence they had -- from the two people in the elevator, who called it mutual combat.
Multiple sources tell TMZ Sports ... the casino made a copy of the elevator surveillance video for police. We're also told Rice's lawyer had a copy of the video, which he got in the criminal case.
An NFL source tells us they requested "any and all information" from law enforcement in the criminal case but got nothing because it was a pending case. But the NFL had other options ... namely going to the casino or Rice's lawyer -- but the NFL never bothered to ask.
ESPN
quote:
MZ Sports, which released the video on Monday on its website, said earlier Tuesday that sources connected with the Revel Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City told it no one from the NFL asked the casino for the video of Rice in the elevator from the Feb. 15 incident. Instead, the league relied on previously released video that showed Janay Palmer (now Janay Rice) being dragged from the elevator after being hit.
A Revel spokesman told ABC News that the casino did make a copy of the elevator surveillance video for police.
In a statement Tuesday, the NFL said, "Security for Atlantic City casinos is handled by the New Jersey State Police. Any videos related to an ongoing criminal investigation are held in the custody of the state police. As we said yesterday: We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including the video from inside the elevator. That video was not made available to us."
NFL responds with another statement LINK
quote:
The NFL reiterated Tuesday that authorities did not make available the video of Ray Rice assaulting his future wife in a hotel elevator at an Atlantic City casino last winter.
"We requested from law enforcement any and all information about the incident, including any video that may exist," the NFL said in a statement. "We spoke to members of the New Jersey State Police and reached out multiple times to the Atlantic City Police Department and the Atlantic County prosecutor's office. That video was not made available to us and no one in our office saw it until yesterday."
This post was edited on 9/9/14 at 11:16 am
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Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:08 am to LSUSoulja08
Disgonebegood.gif
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:09 am to LSUSoulja08
Boom.
This post was edited on 9/9/14 at 8:16 am
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:09 am to tunechi
I thought TMZ was gonna come out with a story today saying the NFL saw it but chose to ignore it?
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:13 am to LSUSoulja08
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:14 am to RollDatRoll
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:15 am to LSUSoulja08
Rodger GoodellPosted on 9/9/14 at 8:16 am to LSUSoulja08
So they actually didn't see it?
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:16 am to Master of Sinanju
sounds like they made an effort not to see it
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:18 am to LSUSoulja08
Willful ignorance is unacceptable here.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:19 am to Galactic Inquisitor
Why did they need to see it to ban him indefinitely? They knew he hit her, what did the video show that made it worse? Goodell just needed to see it to know it was serious? I guess all that "video evidence" really did the Saints in.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:21 am to Galactic Inquisitor
Lulz, they knew it existed, but said: "wait, don't show us that"
Duck goodell
Duck goodell
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:21 am to LSUSoulja08
quote:
sounds like they made an effort not to see it
mortensen was told by a source in the NFL's office, they'd seen it. He then went on to describe in detail what was on the video exactly. That's in print. That cannot be undone. Additionally, several other reporters were told they saw it. All of this shite is in print...so
1. the league lied to every reporter. without seeing the video, deliberately painted a picture that glass jaw was culpable and pressured her to a apologize at a PC for getting knocked the frick out, or
2. They saw it and they're lying, or
3. a few dozen high profile reporters all lied simultaneously that the NFL told them they saw it, with one going so far as to describe in exact detail what happened in the elevator. The NFL saw fit not to respond to this falsehood being reported in every article, despite putting them in a situation fraught with potential consequences
hmmmmm
This post was edited on 9/9/14 at 8:29 am
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:24 am to LSUSoulja08
Head in the sand...
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:24 am to DelU249
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:25 am to John McClane
league still can't get it right:
In response to inquiries from ABC News, the New Jersey State Police said the statement from the NFL cannot be accurate.
"Investigations of incidents on the casino floor are handled by the NJSP, but this occurred in the elevator and was handled by the (Atlantic City Police Department)," a NJSP spokesman said. "We never had the video."
In response to inquiries from ABC News, the New Jersey State Police said the statement from the NFL cannot be accurate.
"Investigations of incidents on the casino floor are handled by the NJSP, but this occurred in the elevator and was handled by the (Atlantic City Police Department)," a NJSP spokesman said. "We never had the video."
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:26 am to LSUSoulja08
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:44 am to PuntBamaPunt
fricked up situation
no idea what as to wtf is going on here
no idea what as to wtf is going on here
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:49 am to RollDatRoll
Posted on 9/9/14 at 8:55 am to LSUSoulja08
All I know is Goodell needs to step down or be fired. There isn't a single scenario in this that doesn't end with him being incompetent.
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